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Chapter 3519

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The Netherworld Gate opened, and their Zerg army swarmed out, rushing into the Netherworld, where the environment inside the door was slightly dim.

The environment of the Netherworld could not be considered dark. The full moon in the sky faintly revealed a blood color. Everything bathed in the moonlight could be seen clearly, like daylight, but without the brightness of daylight.

Su Xiao stood on the back of Barbato, holding a thunder spear in one hand. Just as he was about to give a mental command to let Barbato fly, a prompt appeared.

【Announcement (Void Tree): The Netherworld Gate has been opened!】

【Announcement (Void Tree): The pattern of this world has changed from a dangerous survival-type native world to a war world.】

【Warring parties: Sun Holy Nest, Netherworld.】

【Cause of war: Invasion, counterattack.】

【Because the Netherworld Gate has been opened, "Native World: Alien Battlefield" and "Native World: Netherworld" have been forcibly connected.】

【Due to the appearance of this situation, some notarizations are no longer applicable to the subsequent development of the situation. The Void Tree will make the following changes to the notarization of this world.】

1. In 12 hours, the reputation ranking will be finalized, and within the subsequent 30 minutes, the battle merit ranking will be opened to connect the interruption of the world's ranking notarization.

2. Contractors who have joined factions such as the Sun Holy Nest, Netherworld, Empire, Soul Hall, Platinum Company, etc., can all go to the battlefield to kill enemies and obtain battle merits.

(Hint: The major factions are only divided into two, the current world faction and the Netherworld faction. The two sides are hostile. If you choose to join the Netherworld faction, you will be indiscriminately attacked by the Sun Holy Nest after returning to this world.)

3. Because this battlefield is a "high-intensity war zone," your battle merit acquisition and treasure chest drop rate will be improved during the process of killing enemies on the battlefield.

【Announcement (Void Tree): The following units are leader-level units in this high-intensity war zone. After killing them, you will obtain a huge amount of World Source and a Battlefield Lord Treasure Chest (unique to high-intensity war zones).】

1. Sun Lord: Kuku Lin Bai Ye.

2. Wuying Solaro.

There were many announcements. Su Xiao didn't care about other aspects. The reputation ranking was about to be finalized, which meant the 8-star title was coming, and it also meant that the income of 5,000 soul coins every two days would be cut off.

As for the battle merit ranking that appeared to connect, Su Xiao had no interest in it and wouldn't even take a look. As for why, it was hard to say...

【Hint: It is detected that the Hunter is one of the dual leader-level units this time, and you will not be able to participate in the battle merit ranking.】

Seeing this prompt, Su Xiao was not surprised at all. This kind of situation where professional players were prohibited from participating in amateur competitions was common in notarization. From a certain perspective, he could farm battle merits for himself, and he didn't join a faction but created a faction. This point couldn't pass in terms of notarization, so he was destined not to be able to obtain battle merits.

【Hint: It is detected that your Hunter identity is being re-judged...】

【You are a Reincarnation Paradise Hunter, originally able to normally obtain battle merit rewards, but one of the main factions of the warring parties, the Sun Holy Nest, was created by you, so the battle merit reward notarization cannot be normally conducted for you.】

【According to Article 1953489 of the Initial Regulations, all losses caused to Hunters, Contractors, Arbitrators, Employees, Battle Angels, Death Rangers, etc., due to lack of notarization will be compensated according to the situation of the world they are in.】

【You will not be able to obtain battle merits, and you will not be able to participate in the battle merit ranking. Therefore, when the faction you command causes heavy damage, routs, or occupies the enemy, you can obtain a corresponding number of "Guardian's Proofs" and soul coin income.】

【Guardian's Proof: After accumulating 100 "Guardian's Proofs," you can exchange them for the Immortal-level set: World Guardian Set at the material exchange office of Reincarnation Paradise.】

Su Xiao had previously repelled the Netherworld forces and thought he would have no chance with the "Immortal-level set: World Guardian Set." He didn't expect that there would be a chance to obtain this set after the end of this world progress.

With this income, the dull mood of not being able to participate in the subsequent battle merit ranking gradually turned from cloudy to sunny, but just at this time, another prompt appeared.

【Hint: Because you opened the Netherworld Gate, this behavior has caused huge panic among the wise beings of this world, and your reputation will drop significantly.】

【Your reputation -314,200 points.】

【Current reputation -219,173 points.】

【You are currently at the top of the reputation ranking.】

Reputation is a very fickle thing. Su Xiao had already experienced it before. First, it was positive and negative equal to 27 points, and then it rushed to a positive reputation of 95,000. At that time, he thought that was it, no matter how it rose or fell, it wouldn't fall anywhere.

However, he ignored the psychological endurance of the various wise races in this world. Before, Su Xiao repelled the Netherworld forces, and all races were grateful to him, and the hero image in their hearts was immediately established.

This hero image hadn't been established for a few days when Su Xiao, who had repelled the Netherworld forces, personally opened the Netherworld Gate. This time it was even more ruthless than the Netherworld invasion. That time it was just Netherworld energy invasion, but this time it was directly connecting two worlds and opening a stable passage.

From this, one can imagine the psychological shadow area of all races. The hero turned into a war lunatic in seconds. This strong sense of disparity caused Su Xiao's reputation to drop by more than 300,000.

Compared with the psychological shadow area of all races in this world, at this moment, among the top five in the reputation ranking, the psychological shadow area of the other four was also not small. For the Undead Girl, Kain, and Black Demon, this was no longer a question of whether they could win the top spot, but being pressed and rubbed repeatedly by the top spot like this was too insulting and too shameful.

Su Xiao closed all the prompts. With the big battle ahead, he controlled Barbato to fly into the Netherworld Gate in front.

At the same time, Netherworld, City of the Dead, Inner City District.

In an ancient council hall in the Throne Hall, a group of Netherworld high-level officials gathered here, including the Filthy Tree people with tall figures and inorganic bodies, the Dragon Blood clan with single horns on their heads and snake-like forms, as well as Undead-type ghosts, or blood-thirsty creatures, etc.

All races stood around an iron-black council table. This council table had a total of six seats. At this time, two were empty. Wuying Solaro was in the main seat. This was originally the seat of the Netherworld Emperor, but for thousands of years, war matters had been delegated to Wuying Solaro. Naturally, no one had any objections to him sitting in the main seat.

The other three seated were Twisted Battle Armor, nearly 50 meters tall and wearing heavy armor, who was the leader of the Filthy Tree clan of this generation.

Sitting opposite Twisted Battle Armor was a snake man with cold eyes. The Dragon Blood leader Rune had no single horn, but he still became the leader of the Dragon Blood clan, which showed his wrist.

The last person wore a black smoke skirt. Her skin was so fair that it seemed to have a faint light, a pair of eyes revealed blood red, and her black nails were neatly trimmed. This was Princess Smoke.

"I heard before that you were beaten back, and I thought it was a rumor."

Princess Smoke's words were thorny, which was normal. Since she came to power, the Undead clan had always wanted to break away from the Netherworld in recent years.

"There are words in the words, what do you mean, you dead person?"

Dragon Blood leader Rune spoke. At first glance, this was supporting Wuying Solaro, but in fact, it was sowing discord.

Seeing this, Twisted Battle Armor remained silent. Having followed the Emperor from the beginning, it knew that in fact, the Netherworld's external invasion, after a certain event, had changed its intention.

Before the Emperor built the Throne Hall, the Netherworld went to war externally for the purpose of making other arrogant wise races pay the price, just like the Min-Light Kingdom once led by the Emperor, which excessively pursued extraordinary power and finally focused its attention on one of the basic components of the world, elemental power.

The Min-Light Kingdom finally paid the price. Not only did they pay the price themselves, but they also dragged all the living beings in this world to face the Abyssal invasion. Those friendly gods fell, and the extraordinary living beings died out.

In the end, only the Emperor himself survived the Abyssal invasion. The ancient Min-Light Kingdom ceased to exist and turned into the Netherworld.

At that time, the Emperor sank into the power of the Abyss until an ally from beyond the sky arrived. That ally from beyond the sky called himself a Law-Extinguisher.

That Law-Extinguisher found the Emperor who was sinking into the power of the Abyss and stated his purpose. Roughly, it meant that he came late this time, and while expressing his apologies, he said bluntly that if he had come earlier, he would have destroyed the Min-Light Kingdom led by the Emperor, because this side was obtaining power by devouring natural elements.

That Law-Extinguisher didn't fight the Emperor. Not only did they not fight, but the two sides also reached a cooperation. That Law-Extinguisher provided the coordinates of several worlds and said that these were all places he originally intended to go, but he couldn't go there for now and had to return to the Void to fight with the Arcane Eternal Star.

Obviously, this was the mid-to-late stage of the war between the Law-Extinguisher and the Arcane Eternal Star. At least at that time, the Silver Moon Wolves were all wiped out, otherwise, such things would be handled by the Silver Moon Wolves, and Law-Extinguishers rarely came to these native worlds that were not in the same "boundary" as the Void.

During that period, the Silver Moon Wolves all died, and the Law-Extinguisher faction began to fall into a disadvantage. Meeting a king like the Emperor who abused elemental power but bore the subsequent suffering, cooperation was a good choice.

The several world coordinates left by that Law-Extinguisher represented five native worlds. The representative forces of these five native worlds all discovered the mystery of natural elements and began to gradually devour elemental power.

The Emperor agreed to this cooperation. He left the Netherworld and went to the first world he was going to conquer. In that world, Twisted Battle Armor chose to lead the clan to follow the Emperor.

Initially, the Netherworld's creed was not to destroy civilization. Civilization was worth developing and inheriting, except for those civilizations that abused and devoured elements. This type of civilization was destroyed without exception. There were no pre-war warnings or threats. The Netherworld's style was invasion, extermination, and departure.

As they fought in one world after another, the Emperor had more and more confidants, totaling:

Wuying Solaro, who also lost his home because someone abused elemental power.

The initial follower: Twisted Battle Armor.

World orphan: Xiao Fuliya.

Unfortunate person: Golden Lion Mu.

The abandoned alien race: Dragon Blood clan Rune.

Miserable unfortunate person: Magic Snake Gumo.

One by one, powerful or excellent people gradually stood beside and behind the Emperor. One by one, groups that had experienced suffering also joined the Netherworld. At that time, the Netherworld was of one heart and mind, incomparably powerful.

Until one day, Magic Snake Gumo suddenly betrayed. He was the person the Emperor trusted most, even more than Wuying Solaro and the initial follower Twisted Battle Armor.

It was this kind of confidant who stabbed a dark blade into the Emperor's back. That stab was so ruthless that the Imperial Armor, which had endured thousands of years of erosion with the Emperor, collapsed a piece at the back.

No one knew why Magic Snake Gumo did this. He was killed on the spot by the furious Wuying Solaro and Xiao Fuliya and others.

Afterwards, the Emperor ordered the construction of the Throne Hall that rose to the sky. Twisted Battle Armor saw the Emperor for the last time on the day the Throne Hall was built. After the metal door of the Throne Hall closed, Twisted Battle Armor never saw the king he followed again, until today.

The Emperor sealed himself in the Throne Hall, and the pattern of the Netherworld changed quietly. The Four Knights under the King, who originally had equal power, became Wuying Solaro with the greatest power within a few months.

Not only that, Wuying Solaro began an iron-hoofed invasion. The rules set before were torn up. The goal of the Netherworld was no longer just those civilizations that peeked at elemental power, but all wise civilizations.

The Netherworld's invasion was simple and direct: 1. Netherworld power infiltration, 2. Exterminate all wise beings in the invaded world, 3. Set up a formation, 4. Plunder all materials, 5. Leave that world.

Others didn't know why, but Twisted Battle Armor knew that since the Emperor sealed himself in the Throne Hall, the Netherworld had gradually become dilapidated, and the smell of rot seemed to appear in the air. But after Wuying Solaro launched the war externally, the various abnormalities of the Netherworld gradually recovered.

Twisted Battle Armor could be sure that the Netherworld was gradually heading toward extinction due to some reasons. Wuying Solaro's external war was forcibly delaying the arrival of this extinction.

The brilliance of following the Emperor in the past was no longer there. The current Netherworld is like a dying and fierce evil ghost, forcibly continuing its life by absorbing nutrients from other worlds.

Twisted Battle Armor could be sure that this was definitely not the Emperor's wish. The Emperor it followed would not make such a decision. All this now was Wuying Solaro's greed for the glory of the past.

As for leaving the Netherworld to live in other worlds, this was impossible. The people of the Netherworld could not leave the Netherworld, just as living beings could not live on an oxygen-free planet for a long time.

Wuying Solaro was allowing the people of the Netherworld to continue to live. In the outside world, he was heinous and deserved to die, but in the eyes of the people of the Netherworld, he was the only savior.

If the Emperor brought glory and honor to the Netherworld, then Wuying Solaro was the last pillar of the Netherworld after its decline. Wuying, also known as the carrion-eating bird, obtained food from the death of other living beings.

In the ancient council hall, Twisted Battle Armor sat with its head hanging, seemingly remembering that back that was not as tall as it, but majestic.

Thump, thump, thump~

Wuying Solaro in the main seat raised his hand and tapped the council table lightly, looking around. Dragon Blood leader Rune, Princess Smoke, and others lowered their heads slightly, not daring to look at him, fearing to provoke his majesty.

"At all costs, open the World Gate."

Hearing this, the ancient council hall was silent. Dragon Blood leader Rune and Princess Smoke looked at each other. The two, who had old grudges, decided to stand on the same front after a brief eye contact.

"Lord Solaro, the cost of opening the World Gate..."

Princess Smoke's words were only half spoken when a harsh sound of breaking wind struck.

Boom!

A plasma ball with a diameter of nearly ten meters blasted into the ancient council hall. The tall Twisted Battle Armor didn't know when it had greeted it, and swung its fist sideways with one hand.

With a loud explosion, plasma overflowed. Twisted Battle Armor moved its five fingers wrapped under the armor and looked outside.

The scene in sight made a look of astonishment appear on its wood-like and gullied face. It saw the Netherworld Gate more than ten kilometers outside the city, which meant that a force had invaded the Netherworld.

For a time, Twisted Battle Armor's thinking stalled. Over the years, the Netherworld had invaded many worlds, but being invaded was really the first time.

"Uh~"

Princess Smoke also saw the Netherworld Gate more than ten kilometers outside the city, and she couldn't recover for a while. From birth to now, let alone experiencing it, she hadn't even heard of a similar situation.

"Prepare to fight."

Wuying Solaro's steady but unquestionable voice came. Looking at his expression, he was not surprised at all that the Sun Holy Nest would take the initiative to attack.

Roars came from within the City of the Dead. The heavy city gates were pulled up by chains with a click-clack sound, and pairs of knights riding Netherworld warhorses rushed out of the city.

Along with them were many Soul Wizards wearing robes and gray skin, standing on the old but sturdy city walls. They held their hands in the air and closed their eyes to brew. Soon, the sound of breaking through the air came from above.

A giant meteorite fell. Just as this meteorite fell, it cracked, and the fragments dragged dark green tail flames and fell. After landing, these meteorites exploded.

Boom, boom, boom...

Large pieces of meteorite exploded among their Demon Beasts, blowing up the Demon Beasts involved, armor flying everywhere, and flames surging.

On the back of Barbato, Su Xiao overlooked this scene. Several meteorites brushed past him from dozens of meters away. At this distance, he already felt the scorching heat of the meteorites.

Their Demon Beast army, like a black torrent, surged out from the Netherworld Gate at the rear and rushed toward the City of the Dead in front.

Was it a coincidence that the Netherworld Gate appeared here? Was their luck good? Of course not. It was Su Xiao who entrusted Caesar to set up nodes here.

Su Xiao looked diagonally ahead. The front city wall structure of the City of the Dead was very special, with a total of five city gates. At this time, all those rushing out from the center were knights riding Netherworld warhorses.

These Netherworld warhorses were inlaid with armor on their trunks, and the pupil flames in their eyes were dark green. Don't think that these were just ordinary warhorses eroded by Netherworld energy. This thing was a carnivorous extraordinary creature before death, with a grumpy temper. When it was in heat and in a bad mood, it specifically went to find other carnivorous animals to kick and bite. What's wonderful is that this thing never bullied herbivorous animals.

The knights on the horses were also extraordinary. They were all Netherworld Knights advanced from Netherworld Warriors.

Su Xiao underestimated the combat power of the Netherworld forces. For the Netherworld forces, Caesar was an outsider, and naturally, he couldn't come into contact with too many secrets in a short time.

The main force of the Netherworld forces was not composed of 3rd-tier troop Netherworld Warriors, but all knights, composed of 4th-tier troop Netherworld Knights.

In addition to the Netherworld main force rushing out from the middle gate, from the higher city gate on the right, Filthy Tree people holding metal pillars nearly 30 meters long and 4 meters thick rushed out. With their body size, using such metal pillars was similar to an ordinary person holding a 1.5-meter-long iron rod.

These Filthy Tree people also brushed the metal sticks in their hands while running, adding a kind of turbid blood flame to them. These big guys could actually enchant their weapons.

Further to the right were Dragon Blood Warriors wearing dark gold armor and holding guns and spears. These Dragon Blood Warriors had excellent weapons and armor, belonging to the type whose own strength was average, but they were particularly well prepared.

Inside the city gate to the left of the middle gate were the Undead army. The Undead army had everything, blood descendants, ghosts, gargoyles, etc.

Among the four legions, the Undead Legion roared the loudest. As the saying goes, the louder you shout, the easier it is to get beaten.

Above, Su Xiao naturally noticed the momentum of the Undead clan. He immediately ordered the leader-level Demon Beast Abaddon that no matter how much their side was beaten by the Netherworld main force, they must catch the Undead clan and beat them to death.

If you look down from above, you will find that the two sides of the enemy and us are like two tides rushing toward each other, crashing together.

On the battle line where the two sides collided, hundreds of Demon Beasts were pierced by lances, and because of the Netherworld power attached to the lances, their bodies exploded.

Many Netherworld Knights fell off their horses, but this cavalry immediately showed strong combat literacy. The vanguard of the entire cavalry was like a red-hot iron cone piercing into cheese, rushing into their main force.

This vanguard rushed for nearly a kilometer before stopping its charge, leaving a large area of insect blood and crushed shell fragments along the way. This was the scene of the 3rd-tier troop Demon Beast facing the 4th-tier troop Netherworld Knight.

Regarding this point, Su Xiao had long been prepared. Not to mention being broken through the battle line, even if the Netherworld cavalry rushed through the Netherworld Gate and raided to the front of their base, it didn't matter. The base had a total of 800 Brutal Turrets and 20 Titan Behemoths, ready to welcome them at any time.

On the chaotic battlefield, Netherworld Knights and Filthy Tree people were shockingly strong, especially the Filthy Tree people. If they had been present in the battle to attack their base, their side would definitely not have been able to defend it.

As the saying goes, some are happy and some are sad. Wuying Solaro and Twisted Battle Armor's direct troops fought more and more bravely, while the Undead Legion was another style.

Nearly half of their Demon Beasts chose to attack this side. More than 4,000 Demon Flame Dragons were sent here, and a total of 10 Titan Behemoths were brought, with 8 of them concentrating their firepower here.

The Demon Beasts' sharp claws pierced the skulls of blood descendants, and their tail blades swept, slashing a ghost banshee until she wailed endlessly.

Waves of dragon flames turned the west battlefield into a flame purgatory. A gargoyle flew in the sky. Just at this time, a plasma cannon flew in a parabola and blasted it into fragments all over the sky.

On the high platform behind the Undead army, Princess Smoke's face was gloomy. She couldn't understand what kind of ghost order Wuying Solaro had given, actually letting the whole army charge and rush the enemy back to the Netherworld Gate? Their Undead army was almost pressed to the ground and beaten, it was good enough not to be beaten back, and they actually went to charge the enemy's battle line?

The battlefield was chaotic, meteorites and plasma cannons crossed and flew, and dark green soul fireballs mixed with thick smoke whistled past.

On the ground, Dragon Blood Warriors, Netherworld Knights, Demon Beasts, etc., were fighting together. The tall Filthy Tree people were particularly conspicuous on the battlefield. The smell of burnt and blood mixed, spreading in the air.

The fungus carpet quietly spread out, absorbing those who died in battle or were dying.

And in the rear area of their side, Brutal Turrets were built one after another. Wuying Solaro witnessed this scene of building towers in front of the enemy city wall. Although he didn't show it directly, he was also very speechless in his heart.

He had experienced this broken tactic dozens of times, and so far he hadn't thought of a too good way to target it, mainly because after bombing, not long after, more than a dozen defensive towers were up again.

One hour after the war started, their side was completely beaten back. Fortunately, the death rate of Demon Beasts was on par with the troop-bursting speed in the rear, keeping the number of Demon Beasts between 370,000 and 480,000. The Netherworld army was very strong, with an advantage on almost the entire line, except for the Undead clan.

That side was almost screaming from being beaten. If it weren't for the sake of face, they would have started asking for help.

The Dragon Blood clan seemed to have noticed this scene. They were well-equipped, but their strength was not outstanding. They put away their originally arrogant attitude. They didn't want to be pressed to the ground and beaten like the Undead clan.

The Undead clan originally sent 320,000 troops, and now only 90,000 were left. This made Princess Smoke doubt whether there was any grudge between them and the Sun Holy Nest before.

Actually, there was none. The reason for doing this was to relieve the pressure on the main battlefield. Those Netherworld Knights were too strong. If they didn't let them split their troops to reinforce the Undead clan, their main battlefield really wouldn't be able to hold up.

Three hours after the war started, their battle line continued to retreat.

Five hours after the war started, their battle line was beaten back to the Netherworld Gate, that is, retreated to this world, and began to use their base as a defensive point to welcome the Netherworld main force.

Eight hours after the war started, their side successfully pushed the enemy back, and their army attacked into the Netherworld again.

Eleven hours after the war started, both sides tacitly ceased hostilities. Their army retreated outside the Netherworld Gate and returned to the base, while the enemy army retreated to the City of the Dead.

The reason for the ceasefire was that their side needed to rest, and the enemy side was because the Undead clan and the Dragon Blood clan couldn't stand it, especially the Undead clan, whose total death and injury count exceeded 650,000. Princess Smoke was so angry that she almost went on the field herself.

Su Xiao stood on the city wall in front of their base, looking at the Netherworld Gate in the distance. The land along the way was devastated, and the dark green flames were still burning.

Su Xiao was wrapped in some bandages, and the bandages were stained with blood. He was wrapped in a black feather cloak like this, and the blood energy on his body was slightly heavy. In the chaotic battle just now, he naturally wouldn't just watch, especially when the enemy army raided to the front of their base.

On the battlefield just now, many contractors came, only to find that this battlefield was simply crazy. Cannon fodder was countless, elite units were everywhere, and leader-level units were as common as dogs.

Su Xiao walked down the city wall and returned to the two-story wooden building. He sat cross-legged on the floor mat and pondered. With the current situation, if they continued to fight, their side would definitely not be the opponent. Just one wrong decision, and the battle line would collapse immediately.

Fortunately, after this round of bitter fighting, their side not only obtained a large amount of biological energy but also obtained 5 Evolution Points. Whether to improve Jila, the insect nest, or Zerg units, there was no need to choose.

Just as Su Xiao was about to let Jila use these Evolution Points, the Void Tree's announcement appeared.

【Announcement (Void Tree): The reputation ranking has been locked and will be finalized.】

【Settlement completed, the final ranking is as follows:】

First place: Bai Ye (Reincarnation Paradise), has obtained the 8-star title: Doomsday Monarch.

Second place: Anonymous (--Paradise), has obtained the 7-star title: Honorable in Defeat.

Hint: There is no need to pay soul coins for hidden code names. If you need to hide the affiliated Paradise faction, you need to apply additionally.

Third place: Priest (Sanctuary Paradise), has obtained Netherfire's Language.

Fourth place: Anonymous (--Paradise), has obtained Soul Treasure Chest.

Fifth place: Anonymous (Death Paradise), has obtained Earth Vein Recluse (professional inheritance item).

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